◄ Judges 16:16 ►
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Good News Translation
She kept on asking him, day after day. He got so sick and tired of her bothering him about it

New Revised Standard Version
Finally, after she had nagged him with her words day after day, and pestered him, he was tired to death.

Contemporary English Version
Delilah started nagging and pestering him day after day, until he couldn't stand it any longer.

New American Bible
She pressed him continually and pestered him till he was deathly weary of it.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And when she pressed him much, and continually hung upon him for many days, giving him no time to rest, his soul fainted away, and was wearied even unto death.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And when she pressed him much, and continually hung upon him for many days, giving him no time to rest, his soul fainted away, and was wearied even unto death.

she pressed

Proverbs 7:21-23,26,27 Immediately he followeth her as an ox led to be a victim, and as a lamb playing the wanton, and not knowing that he is drawn like a fool to bonds, . . .

Luke 11:8 Yet if he shall continue knocking, I say to you, although he will not rise and give him because he is his friend; yet, because of his importunity, he will rise and give him as many as he needeth.

Luke 18:5 Yet because this widow is troublesome to me, I will avenge her, lest continually coming she weary me.

vexed.

Job 21:4 Is my debate against man, that I should not have just reason to be troubled?

Jonah 4:9 And when the sun was risen, the Lord commanded a hot and burning wind: and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, and he broiled with the heat: and he desired for his soul that he might die, and said: It is better for me to die than to live.

Mark 14:24 And he said to them: This is my blood of the new testament, which shall be shed for many.

Context
Delilah Discovers the Secret
15And Dalila said to him: How dost thou say thou lovest me, when thy mind is not with me? Thou hast told me lies these three times, and wouldst not tell me wherein thy greatest strength lieth. 16And when she pressed him much, and continually hung upon him for many days, giving him no time to rest, his soul fainted away, and was wearied even unto death.17Then opening the truth of the thing, he said to her: The razor hath never come upon my head, for I am a Nazarite, that is to say, consecrated to God from my mother's womb: If my head be shaven, my strength shall depart from me, and I shall become weak, and shall be like other men.…
Cross References
Judges 16:15
And Dalila said to him: How dost thou say thou lovest me, when thy mind is not with me? Thou hast told me lies these three times, and wouldst not tell me wherein thy greatest strength lieth.

Judges 16:17
Then opening the truth of the thing, he said to her: The razor hath never come upon my head, for I am a Nazarite, that is to say, consecrated to God from my mother's womb: If my head be shaven, my strength shall depart from me, and I shall become weak, and shall be like other men.

Judges 16:15
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